In this issue:

• A note from Beth and Neill

  - Love on Purpose

• Focused Attention Update

  - New Affirmation & Declaration
    Audio CDs--Ridiculously low
    introductory offer

• Feature Article

  - How to Stop Worrying About Things You
    Don't Want and Happily Pursue
    Those You Do!

Love on Purpose

Hi There,

Can you believe it's almost August? Time flies when you're having fun, or not! And with it's passing goes the opportunity to spend time with the people you care about
--in whatever way you do.

This has been at the forefront for us lately. Beth's mom was doing really well and improving in all sorts of ways. Then, all of a sudden she's feeling very tired and uncomfortable again. We suspect a new infection has set in.

With all the back-and-forth of her health, it can't help but affect the quality of our time together. As we see her health heading for a low point again, we find that we want to offer ideas, suggestions, and practical advice about how she could be taking care of herself.

"Maybe if you try to walk a little more..." or "Would you consider eating something else that would be better for your diabetes..." or "How about using the oxygen for a little while..."

But when we offer our opinions you can sense the tension in us and in Mom.

Now, we know enough to ask before offering unsolicited advice and to make sure the other person is open to hearing it. And we're happy moving on if they're not. But, when it's a person we deeply care about, and our opinion comes from a place of love, the whole situation seems to become much more challenging.

So here's the question we asked ourselves: What makes it so difficult to ask before we offer our advice and so hard to accept "no" as an answer?

Here's what we found when we looked at this. On the surface, we were feeling pretty scared and worried. If she continues to do nothing to help herself it seems she may die much sooner than is necessary.

Delving deeper into this fear we realized that, if she dies sooner rather than later, we might feel guilty about "not having done the right thing" or "not having done enough to help."

Then the question was: Do we want to act from this fear or from love? That's a simple answer, so the next question became: In moments of tension, what would love look like?

We've been doing a lot with affirmations and declarations lately, so to help us answer this question in each of these moments, we adapted an affirmation from our new CD set. (see below)

We stop and silently repeat this affirmation any time we notice that we are feeling tense about Mom's situation or her actions.

"In this moment I have an opportunity to express compassion for myself and Mom."

Then we see what occurs to us.

Sometimes, expressing compassion means asking whether she'd like our opinion. Sometimes, it means staying silent and loving her in some other way.

We want the time we have left with Mom to be filled with fun, happiness and love. This practice is helping us have just that.

We can't affect the way time flies by, but we hope this will support you in learning (or relearning) that what we create in our day-to-day lives is the love we share now, and will be the memories we have of our past.

If you have anyone in your life you deeply care about--and you sometimes worry about their future--please read this month's article: How to Stop Worrying About Things You Don't Want - and Happily Pursue Those You Do!

We hope it will help you relax and enjoy the time you have with them.

And if you want to learn more about how to effectively use affirmations, please read about our new CDs in the next section.

Until next month...

With love and gratitude,
Beth and Neill

Focused Attention Update

New Affirmation & Declaration
Audio CDs Ready!

If you've been reading our newsletters you've heard that these CDs were coming. Well now they're here -- and at a ridiculously low introductory price just for our community members!

You probably also read that we guarantee them to be,
"The most amazing affirmation CDs you've ever experienced!"

We don't mean to sound overconfident, but we really believe there's something special about these CDs.

The professional who mixed them said:

"I found myself drawn to listen to the affirmation CDs even after I had completed the work. I've been listening ever since and have had an incredible lift in my attitude, relationships, and my general feeling of well being. This program works, and I am so proud to have been a part of it."
~ Jeff Eberlin

If you can't find this message, please use this link to send us an e-mail and we'll re-send it to you:

Focused Attention
Affirmation & Declaration CDs
with a twist...



Look for the email message with
"For Your Eyes Only"
in the subject line

We apologize for not putting the link in this eZine, but we post this online and the offer is only for our community.

Keep in mind that this ridiculously low introductory price only lasts until
August 8th.